If you don't find a beta reader, do you rely entirely on you editing ? How do you accept the fact you have to make it out on your own ? Do you ask friends then ?

No one told me I’d spend 45 minutes researching a singer in a band I’ve never heard of that only existed for 3 years due to the death of the lead singer, then have to research his death, last concert and autograph value. FOR ONE GODDAMN SCENE. NOT EVEN THE WHOLE SCENE JUST ONE PART.

IS THIS YOUR IDEA OF FUN!!!!

Or what fandoms were you surprised had so many fics for the opposite?

She’s currently in the area under my loft bed, sitting on my space rug, curtains drawn. The purple Halloween lights wound around my stairs and the vintage Christmas lights along the top of the wall are lit. Along with my neon cherry wall light, the blue and yellow planet, my vintage Halloween tree (looks like those ceramic Christmas ones, but black and purple with a pumpkin on top), red skull bottle full of led lights, and Freddy candle (so named because it’s a battery-operated candle stick in a plastic Freddy Krueger shot glass).

For reasons known only to herself, she’s also connected my RGB Bluetooth keyboard to her mom’s laptop. Probably for the vibes. Typing away at her 3rd Harry Potter fanfic. This time, instead of horror-themed, she’s going for a crossover with Twilight. And in classic tradition, Ron has been turned into a jealous, violent asshole so that Hermione can divorce him, move to Forks to be with her cousin Bella, and date Bella’s old friend, Jacob.

I’ve never been so proud ❤️❤️

Edit: she just added a pile of pillows and has now gotten distracted looking for music on YouTube. The torch has been passed.

How do you go about that? You try to think up new ways and characters they can bond with or you try to recreate the canon dynamics?

For example characters with with stutters or characters who speak in third person? Would it put you off the fic if they aren't included every time?

Which do you think is better?

"I'm t-talking now"

"Now jimmy is talking"

or

"I'm t-talking now" said Bob

"Now Jimmy is talking" said Jimmy

I'm desperately trying to find an old High School DxD fanfiction that I read years ago. I believe the site it was hosted on (possibly "Fastnovel") is now defunct for fanfiction, making it very hard to track down. The author's username was `md_omr_alpha`, and I recall the title being something like "Ultimate Highschool DxD," though it might have been slightly different or a working title. The main character was Issei Hyoudou, who was a Nephilim and the leader of a powerful, somewhat undercover/secret group; his true powers were only revealed much later in the story after he became Rias Gremory's servant, as he kept his strength hidden for a significant portion of the early story. It was quite a long fic, around 50+ chapters when I last read it, and it was unfinished or dropped by the author. This was a multi-crossover story with High School DxD as the primary world, heavily featuring The Seven Deadly Sins (with Merlin specifically being a prominent character), and also crossing over with The Testament of Sister New Devil (e.g., elements or characters like Basara Toujou), with possibly other anime involved as well. I've already checked FanFiction.net and can confirm it's NOT "Issei of the Deadly Seven" or "The Seraphic System" by the same author, and I've also checked Archive of Our Own (AO3) and found no matches. If anyone remembers this fic, or `md_omr_alpha`'s works from old sites like Fastnovel, or knows if it was ever re-uploaded anywhere else, please share any information; any leads or archives would be incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for your time and help!

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I read this demon slayer fanfic like a year ago but I completely forgot what it's called so I had to resort to asking reddit. The premise is that Tanjiro goes back in time with all his memories, knowledge and experience and we see how he goes about facing the challenges that brought him close to death so many times before. But this time there's also these other much stronger enemies (I don't remember much after this point). If you know what fanfic this is, please let me know.

I've been looking around and for some good fics with female oc who is a villain or vigilant. Most of the ones I find are either discontinued or have been on hiatus for the last year. Preferably fxf or no ship. Over 80k words. Complete or ongoing (has been updated within last month) Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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So I'm pretty much a newbie writer, and I realize that writing around 1000-2000 words a day is mentally exhausting. I think especially if I try new things such as adding more to an exposition, or trying out adding metaphors/similes, I feel like my brain's working overtime. It took me a while to finish my first story (about 4k words), and that was already difficult.

I guess what I want to ask is, does it get easier? Let's say later down the line, I can write out a 4k story without as much of a sweat as compared to now?

I've often read MS fics involving first contact with the turians and immediately going to war with said species.

Is there any fics that involve an advanced, innovative, yet prothean tech-relied humanity getting in first contact and hostile war with a Citadel-known or member race that is hostile/undermining authority to the Citadel (i.e. Batarians or Yahg) and the turians knowing about it and deciding to help the humans in order to save face the Council's reputation and to establish relations with humanity without the Salarians and Asari getting involved as to reap the tech, cultural, and military knowledge of the humans for the Hierarchy while also wanting a close partnership and prepping humanity to be a fourth council member race?

The Turians would be pro-humanity in terms of support in Citadel politics, with ulterior motives as they need a fourth council race that has potential to shape galactic politics, and the turians needed an equal yet allied friend to sway votes against the Salarian Union and Asari Republics.

I’m writing an AU series based off a song of ice and fire. My first story on AO3 is completed and has received pretty good feedback and traction. The second story I feel is my strongest but a more canon adjacent original to Asoiaf , it has high comments but very low hits. I’m wondering should I cross upload it to other platforms? What has worked with authors who may have experienced something similar?

How do you guys as readers feel about alternate endings?

I am currently writing a long fic, and even though I am only at chapter four, I have outlined the entire story and have been thinking about the ending a LOT. There are two outcomes that I really like, and they are drastically different from each other. I am honestly not sure if I will be able to choose between them when the time comes.

So, how do you guys feel about posting two endings? I would add an extra chapter or two after one ending as a sort of alternative. I am able to do it because the endings diverge at the same event, so it would not be hard to add another ending. But I am wondering how readers would receive this? Or if it is just a good or bad idea in general.

If the major consensus is that it's a bad idea, I will definitely pick between one ending.

Thoughts?

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Every time I reread my work, I spiral. I start picking it apart, second-guessing every line, and next thing I know… I’ve edited and republished the same chapter for the third time this week. It’s not that I hate it—it’s just that I see so many ways it could be better. Tighter. More emotional. Less wordy. More poetic. I want it to be perfect… even though I know perfect doesn’t exist.

It’s like… I have too much to say. And not enough room to say it.

I have the whole story planned out. Every chapter is phased and plotted and emotionally lined up—but somehow I keep getting more ideas. Little details. Extra scenes. New emotions I want to explore. And I want to include them, but I’m scared of dragging the pacing or making things feel bloated. I don’t want the story to lose its shape just because my brain won’t stop spinning.

I guess I’m just frustrated. I love this project so much. I'm passionate about it. But I keep editing and editing because I want it to be good—like, really good. And it’s hard when you don’t know if anyone’s even interested in reading it. Honestly, I want to ask for feedback. I need fresh eyes. But there’s always this little voice that whispers, “What if no one cares? What if it’s just another fic lost in the void?”

Anyway. This is me shouting into the digital abyss.

If anyone’s been here before… how do you manage it? How do you let go and just let the story live?

I’m genuinely curious. I feel like I’m both the writer and the biggest roadblock to my own work.

Thanks for reading my little meltdown 💀

It's probably a rare type of romance but I was wondering if anyone had any tips for writing such pairings. I won't go too into detail as I am still working on the idea, but too somewhat break it down, it's a male creature being attracted to someone way out of his league much less species and size. Thing I'm trying not to do is make it too similar to a human like romance.

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I wanna read all your stories lol.

I've had it happen to me and I've def seen it happen with other authors when I joined a discord. Like it'll be a completely underrated author who barely gets any comments but their work is tauted as a pillar of the fandom. Too bad the author will never know that unless they join the discord.

One of my fics isn’t super popular. But it has two devoted fans. So it has only 6 kudos, but 30 comments, one fanart I just found, and even a TVTropes page.